The company known as WCW existed for years before as both Georgia Championship Wrestling and Mid-Atantic
Championship Wrestling. The two companies were both under Jim Crockett Promotions and so amounted to being the same
thing, despite the different names. In November, 1988, Jim Crockett sold Jim Crockett Promotions to WTBS. Crockett
promotions had been the promotion most widely associated with the NWA. In order to distance itself from the NWA, which
still existed as a paper organization at the time, WTBS began to change the name of its titles and television programs from
NWA to WCW. The change took place in late 1990. By January, 1991, the WCW name was fully in place and the NWA
name was all but dropped by the organization. WCW was formerly owned by Time-Warner and WTBS. Ted Turner, although
a majority stock holder in Time-Warner, is NOT the sole owner of WCW following the merger last year between Turner and
Time-Warner. The company was eventually bought out by WWE owner Vince McMahon Jr.
| 1) THE YETI Big John Studd’s protege this gimmick is a blatant |
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| 2) ROBO COP Yes this is serious…Sting’s |
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THE SHOCK This one is just so ridiculous |
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| 4) DENNIS RODMAN + KARL MALONE How to make a Hulk WOW. |
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| 5) WCW CHAMPION DAVID ARQUETTE nuff said |
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| 6) THE DING DONGS Jobbers in body suits that rang bells during their matches | |||
| 7) BIG JOSH Happy lumberjack with dancing bears He would go on to play Doink The Clown. | | ||
| 8) THE LOCH NESS MONSTER Wrestling legend Haystacks Callhoun..as …well…the evil sea monster | |||
| 9) THE SHARK ‘Earthquake’ John Tenta as….an evil Shark | |||
| 10) ARACHNIMAN Brad Armstrong as your favorite web slinging hero | | ||
| 11) RANGER ROSS The fun loving ranger..(never quite As a fun side note..the fun loving | | ||
| 12) LASER TRON Yep, Hector Guerrero in a gimmick | | ||
| 13) THAT 70’S GUY Just remember Mike Awesome threw away the ECW world title for this… | | ||
| 14) AMERICAN MALES Marcus “Buff” Bagwell and Scotty Riggs as Chippendale dancers. | | ||
| 15) BOOTY MAN Brutus Beefcake’s new failed gimmick… shaking his ass with his butt cheeks exposed. Wow. | | ||
| 16) NWO STING The NWO’s imposter Sting played by the former caped crusader Lightning of the tag team Thunder & Lightning. Uh huh. | | ||
| 17) THE RENEGADE Hulk Hogan’s “Ultimate Surprise Partner”..an Ultimate Warrior look a like played by Richard Williams, who committed suicide in 1999. | | ||
| 18) THE INCREDIBLE OZ Pre Vinnie Vegas era Kevin Nash as the incredible wizard oz…led to the ring by his manager….the wizard. | | ||
| 19) GLACIER Glacier’s 1997 WCW debut saw him enter the ring to snowflakes, fog, and various random lasers…and he fell flat on his face. | | ||
| 20) “THE RAP MASTER” PN NEWS Fat guy whose extent of rapping included “yo baby yo baby yo” | | ||
| 21) BERLYN Alex Wright as the evil German guy. | | ||
| 22) KISS DEMON Played by Brian Adams (Crush) and Dale Torborg. | | ||
| 23) S7VEN Goldust meets the Undertaker…and behold a failing pale horse. | | ||
| 24) HEAVY METAL VAN HAMMER Just about the only thing worse than | | ||
| 25) TRUCKER NORMAN Norman the Lunatic as a trucker | | ||
| 26) THE PATRIOTS Chris Champion as yet another army | | ||
| 27) DAS WUNDER KIN Alex Wright as a dancing raver | | ||
| 28) THE DESPERADOS Black Bart, Deadeye Dick, and Dutch Mantel as a gang of cowboys in search of Stan Hansen. | | ||
| 29) THE STATE PATROL Sgt Buddy Lee Parker and Lt James | | ||
| 30) ITALIAN STALLION THE PRO Mike Awesome under a mask with an absurd name being billed from Puerto Rico. Makes perfect sense. | | ||
| 31) JUNGLE JIM STEELE Yet another Ultimate Warrior clone | |||
| 32) THE GIANT NINJA After The Yeti “thawed out”, Ron Reis became THE GIANT NINJA. | | ||
| 33) THREE COUNT Sugar Shane Helms, Evan Karagias, and Shannon Moore as a boy band. | | ||
| 34) THE MAESTRO The heel music director with his | | ||
| 35) DISCO INFERNO One of the most annoying wrestlers | | ||
| 37) DYNAMIC DUDES Johnny Ace and Shane Douglas as | | ||
| 38) JAY LENO Some day hopefully wrestling promoters will realise that involving random celebrities in wrestling matches is just plain stupid. | | ||
| 39) MISFITS IN ACTION G.I. Bro General Rection Corp Cajun Sgt AWOL Lieutenant Loco Major Stash Major Gunns | | ||
| 40) ROADBLOCK Random guy that met Hulk Hogan in a gym. Later that night he jumped the rail during a WCW event, chased One Man Gang around the ring and pinned him. He became a glorified jobber who carried a police barricade to the ring with him. | | ||
| 41) SQUIRE DAVE TAYLOR The blue blooded snobby Brit | | ||
| 42) JOHNNY B BADD Marc Mero in makeup and lip stick as a Little Richard impersonator. | | ||
| 43) YOSHI KWAN Another white dude playing the role | | ||
| 44) BLACK BLOOD Billy Jack Haynes in a black mask | | ||
| 45) MEN AT WORK Tag team of Chris Kanyon and Mark Starr who wore construction outfits to the ring. And to think, Kanyon + Kidman’s hockey team gimmick didn’t get over! | |||
| 46) WRATH & MORTIS Brian Adams + Chris Kanyon in stupid costumes that feuded with Glacier & Ernest Miller in an angle called “Blood Runs Cold”. | | ||
| 47) JACK VICTORY Perhaps the one guy who has had The list includes: | | ||
| 48) CREATIVE CONTROL Starring Ron & Don Harris in failed | | ||
| 49) ASYA WCW’s answer to Chyna. | | ||
| 50) NO LIMIT SOLDIERS vs WEST TEXAS REDNECKS Master P and his clique of rappers came in to feud with the West Texas Rednecks over their song “Rap Is Crap”. The angle included the former Virgil as the cowboy redneck “Wild Bill”. |